Genius Club
Chapter 1343 - 26 Life_3

Chapter 1343: Chapter 26 Life_3

The little boy apologized weakly amid screams, but the bullies only grew more excited, completely ignoring his life or death, and delivered another round of fierce kicks to his head—

Bang!

A gunshot!

The cap atop the head of the leading Black man fell to the ground in response.

The three Black men stood in stunned silence, looking towards the corner of the dark alley...

A tall man dressed in black stood at the entrance of the alley, a gun in his right hand emitting a conspicuous wisp of white smoke.

Bang! Bang!

Two more gunshots, and without seeing the man raise his gun and aim, the hats of the other two Black men shot into the air...falling to the ground in succession.

The armed man lifted his head.

His bright, azure eyes fixed on the three:

"Get lost."

He said softly, but it was like the whisper of death.

"Run...run!"

The three Black men were instantly terrified, fleeing in a panic.

The little boy climbed up from the ground, incredulously watching the three Black men scrambling away, then turned to see Lin Xian, hurriedly standing up, nervously expressing his gratitude:

"Thank you, sir! Thank you for saving me!"

"Are you a Dragon Country person?" Lin Xian switched from English to directly speaking in Chinese.

The little boy was taken aback, then quickly switched to Chinese:

"Sir, are you...are you mixed-race?"

He didn’t speak Mandarin, his dialect was heavy, sounding like a northern accent from Dragon Country.

But it at least proved Lin Xian’s guess was correct.

Little Johnny indeed had Chinese descent.

Lin Xian didn’t explain the question of being mixed-race, only nodding perfunctorily.

At present, due to the space-time exclusion anomaly, his appearance and voice were more like that of a foreigner, making it more reasonable to assume he was mixed-race.

"Why did they hit you?"

Lin Xian asked with a voice that wasn’t truly his own.

The little boy patted the dirt off his body, speaking with grievance:

"They...they forced me to steal things! To steal people’s wallets!"

"When I was young, Dragon Country was at war, my parents took me on a boat to flee to Mi Country...not long after, they both passed away, my dad was beaten to death, and my mom died of illness, since then I’ve been wandering in the Brooklyn area."

"Those Black men caught me, forcing me to steal money for them to spend, if I didn’t steal enough each day, or if I stole too little, they would beat me like they did just now, several times beating me until I lost consciousness and fainted."

"But I have no way out, I can’t escape from their clutches, I can only...I can only do as they say."

Lin Xian looked at the little boy, his mouth full of blood.

He couldn’t be more than 14 years old, clearly malnourished, and slightly hunched; it’s obvious that life has been hard on him these years.

His background...it’s much like CC’s, equally unfortunate.

"You’re called Little Johnny?"

"Yes!"

The little boy nodded quickly:

"They all call me Little Johnny, sir, you can call me Little Johnny too!"

Lin Xian didn’t say much more.

He took out a dozen hundred-dollar US dollar bills from his coat pocket, placing them in Little Johnny’s hand.

Little Johnny’s eyes widened:

"Sir! This is..."

"Take it."

Lin Xian straightened his body, adjusted his hat, and placed the cooled-down gun back in his pocket:

"If you don’t want to keep getting beat up, find another place, learn a trade, and start a new life."

"In these tough times, no one can help you much; if you want to survive, you have to become strong yourself."

With that,

He turned around and walked away directly.

Little Johnny was still not over his shock...

He looked at the shimmering, green cash in his hand, then at the direction the mixed-race blue-eyed man left.

Recalling his heroic presence just now, how with a few gunshots he scared away those invincible Black men, strong yet gentlemanly, calm yet graceful!

"That’s what a truly impressive person is!"

Little Johnny adored the departing figure immensely.

He bit his lip.

Starting to run, he gave chase!